Resources

Pest control

• Post-eradication surveillance of possums on Māhia Peninsula (2022)
• Pre- and post-control possum home range habitat use on Māhia Peninsula (2022)
• Possum home range and movement behaviour on Māhia Peninsula: annual progress report (2021)
• Using para-aminopropiophenone (PAPP) as a tool to control feral cats in Hawke's Bay (2021)
• Refining kill-trap networks for the control of small mammalian predators in invaded ecosystems (2020)
• Possum home range and movement behaviour on Māhia Peninsula: annual progress report (2020)
• Whakatipu Māhia possum eradication modelling (part II): modelling the use of barriers to dispersal (2020)
• Whakatipu Māhia possum eradication modelling (spatially explicit simulation model) (2019)
• Predator trap optimisation for Poutiri Ao ō Tāne (2019)
• Whakatipu Mahia possum eradication modelling (TrapSim) (2018)
• Wide-scale predator control for biodiversity conservation: a case study from Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand (2018)
• Effect of predator control at Poutiri Ao ō Tāne on Boundary Stream Mainland Island (2017)
• Economic assessment of using wireless monitoring for managing large scale trap networks (2017)
• TrapSim: A decision-support tool for simulating predator trapping (2017)
• Effectiveness of feral cat control using para-aminopropiophenone (PAPP) on Toronui Station, Hawke's Bay (2017)
• Using chew cards to map possum and predator landscape distribution (2016)
• Landholder participation in regional control of invasive predators (2016)
• Implications of landholder buy-in for regional predator control success (2015)
• Optimising a kill trap network for cost-effective predator control (2015)
• Remote monitoring of traps using wireless systems (2015)
• Potential applications of wireless sensor networks for wildlife trapping/monitoring (2015)

Pest monitoring

• Artificial intelligence for vertically oriented cameras (2022)
• Development of ferret lure for wildlife management (2018)
• Socially acceptable compliance monitoring of predators (2018)
• Influence of camera trap orientation on invasive predator detection rates (2017)
• Exploiting interspecific olfactory communication to monitor predators (2017)
• Predator monitoring for compliance in Cape to City (2016)
• Cape to City predator monitoring: Initial knockdown (2016)
• Wildlife detector dogs and camera traps: Comparing feral cat detection techniques (2016)
• Camera trapping to monitor the results of predator removal on Waitere Station (2015)

 Biodiversity outcomes

• Predator and biodiversity response monitoring in Cape to City: annual report (2021)
• Cape to City Bird Monitoring Report (2021)
• Predator and biodiversity response monitoring in Cape to City: annual report (2020)
• Cape to City Bird Monitoring Report (2019)
• DNA metabarcoding as a tool for invertebrate community monitoring: a case study comparison with conventional techniques (2019)
• Predator and biodiversity monitoring in Cape to City and Poutiri Ao ō Tāne (2019)
• Power analysis for biodiversity monitoring in Cape to City (2019)
• Report on fifth and final transfer of mottled petrel (Pterodroma inexpectata) from Whenua Hou/Codfish Island to Maungaharuru/Boundary Stream Mainland Island (2018)
• The habitat value of mānuka for invertebrates following the establishment of a mānuka plantation: project plan (2018)
• Cape to City biodiversity monitoring update (2018)
• Review of threatened and iconic plant, bat, lizard, frog, terrestrial invertebrate, and fungi species in Cape to City and Poutiri Ao ō Tāne (2018)
• Predator and biodiversity monitoring in Poutiri Ao ō Tāne and Cape to City update (2018)
• DNA metabarcoding as a new tool for invertebrate community monitoring – a case study comparison with conventional techniques (2017)
• Linking predator camera trap monitoring to biodiversity and economic outcomes: how to derive density-impact functions for Cape to City (2017)
• Linking predator camera trap monitoring to biodiversity and economic outcomes: density impact functions in principle (2017)
• Habitat availability for native New Zealand bird species within the Cape to City footpring: a preliminary assessment (2017)
• Effect of predator control at Poutiri Ao ō Tāne on Boundary Stream Mainland Island (2017)
• Bird Count Monitoring in Cape to City (2017)
• Lizard and invertebrate biodiversity monitoring in Cape to City (2016)
• Invertebrate species services within Cape to City and environmental DNA comparison (2016)
• Restoring birds in Cape to City (infographic) (2016)
• Potential bird-related research in Cape to City (2016)
• Wide-scale predator control for biodiversity conservation: a case study from Hawke's Bay, New Zealand (2015)
• Possum control and bird recovery in an urban landscape (2015)
• Biodiversity and predator monitoring for Cape to City (2015)

Economic outcomes

• Impact of feral cat control on toxoplasmosis levels in sheep as part of the Cape to City programme (2020)
• Progress report on impact of cat trapping on prevalence of Toxoplasmosis gondii as part of the Cape to City initiative (2017)
• Economic outcomes of a broadscale predator control in the Hawke's Bay region (2016)
• Toxoplasma gondii screening in cats and mice using PCR (2016)
• Potential of feral cat control to reduce toxoplasmosis on sheep farms (2014)

Unexpected outcomes

• Changes in rabbit abundance with predator control (2022)
• Impacts of rabbit grazing on pasture in Hawke's Bay (2016)
• Pests controlling pests: Does predator control lead to greater rabbit abundance? (2015)

Education

• The Cape to City education programme: an internal review (2018)

Social reports

Kaupapa Maori

• Te Matau a Maui: Kaupapa Maori research to restore biodiversity in Hawkes Bay (2018)

Citizen science

• Assessment of data sources for monitoring birds in Cape to City (2016)

Social drivers

• Landholder perceptions of predator control in the Cape to City region: results from the rural survey (2020)
• An application of the I3 framework to feral cat control in Hawke's Bay (2020)
• Survey on pest management and environmental restoration in Hawke's Bay (2019)
• An application of the I3 framework to rat control in Hawke's Bay (2019)
• Landowners' perspectives on coordinated, landscape-level invasive species control (2017)
• Cape to City project community survey (2016)

Social-ecological modelling

• Social, economic and biophysical thresholds with highest priority for generating outcomes (2016)

Case study

• Implementing landscape transformation: insights from the project management of Cape to City and Poutiri Ao ō Tāne (2019)
• The initiation of Cape to City: case study discussion document (2015)

Milestone reports

• Benefits to conservation programmes (2020)
• Optimising habitat connectivity (2020)
• Maraetōtara river quality trends (2020)
• Citizen science in Predator Free Hawke's Bay (2020)
• Farmer commitments in Cape to City and Poutiri Ao ō Tāne (2020)
• The effectiveness and reliability of self-resetting rat traps in Boundary Stream (2020)
• Wireless optimisation in Predator Free Hawke's Bay (2020)

• Milestone report: August 2021
• Milestone report: February 2021
• Milestone report: August 2020
• Milestone report: February 2020
• Milestone report: August 2019
• Milestone report: February 2019
• Milestone report: August 2018
• Milestone report: February 2018
• Milestone report: August 2017
• Milestone report: February 2017
• Milestone report: August 2016
• Milestone report: February 2016
• Milestone report: August 2015

Are you interested in learning how to bring conservation into your classroom – and beyond? Check out the following links for more information:

• Cape to City Team Resources: Ruud, Robyn and Megan have compiled their main resources into a dropbox.
  
  
• Conservation education (DOC): The Department of Conservation offers a comprehensive online list of education resources.
  
  
• National programmes (DOC): Find out how to get involved with Kiwi Guardians, the Outlook for Someday, or other national conservation events and contests
  
  
• Read the Department of Conservation’s Pitopito kōrero -  A quarterly e-newsletter of conservation education stories and resources relevant to the current school term. 
  
  
• iNaturalist: Use iNaturalist to record what you see, identify unknown plant and animal species, meet other nature watchers and learn more about the natural world. Don't forget to download their mobile app!
  
  
• Garden Bird Survey: Landcare Research runs a mid-winter bird survey across New Zealand every year. Mark your calendars so you can take part!

• Predator Free New Zealand Trust has great education resources

Connecting to nature - what we offer

• Free teacher workshops designed to increase your confidence to head outdoors, beyond the classroom and find opportunities to learn in, from and about nature. These workshops provide links with the New Zealand Curriculum and Te Whāriki to enable cross curricular learning in the outdoors.

• You can also get in touch with us if you are a candidate teacher (Primary or Early childhood) at EIT as we work in partnership with their teaching degree programmes.

• We have a lot of experience working with schools and in the area of teacher professional development and would be happy to provide advice and support where we can.

Predator Free 2050 Limited is a Crown-owned, charitable company established to help deliver the New Zealand government’s ambitious goal of eradicating possums, stoats and rats by 2050.
They provide co-funding to enable predator control and eradication projects at large landscape scale and the breakthrough science needed to underpin them.
Read more about Predator Free 2050 Ltd.

Five large landscape predator control and eradication projects have been launched to date

• Towards Predator-Free Taranaki 
• Predator Free Wellington
• Te Korowai o Waiheke - Towards Predator Free Waiheke
• Predator Free Dunedin

In 2017 the Poutiri Ao ō Tāne and Cape to City project team hosted a national conference to share the knowledge learned through the projects. 

The presentations were recorded and are available on our YouTube channel

The Hawke's Bay Regional Council's Pest Hub is the go-to guide for advice on pest animals and weeds in Hawke's Bay. There is information on 171 plant, animal, marine, freshwater, invertebrate, and disease pests.